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This Is Our City

by The Voltage Heroes

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1.
THE MAYOR: We've worked hard many years To make men out of you, to build towers to the sky and We've broken many gears We've done it all for you, we've done it all for you And all I want Is for you To give us trust And see this through REPORTER 1: Will the fog ever lift? THE MAYOR: In time REPORTER 2: Is the money changing hands? THE MAYOR: In time REPORTER 3: The streets are on fire! THE MAYOR: Don't look You don't look My promises to you I promise I will take your hunger away I promise I will bring it back I promise I will take you children away I promise I will bring them back We've seen hard times, we've seen hard crimes We've tasted blood, now close you eyes All I want is for you To give us trust and see this through People raise your hands and sing praises to the land People raise your hands and sing praise to the land Yes! THE CITIZENS: No! THE MAYOR: We will build a wall! Yes! THE CITIZENS: No! THE MAYOR: A thousand feet high! Yes! THE CITIZENS: No! THE MAYOR: And it will never fall! Yes! THE CITIZENS: No! THE MAYOR: And you will never die!
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CCTV 02:02
CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: In time CRIMINAL: With time CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: We'll rust CRIMINAL: They'll rust CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: But we've seen every speck of dust CRIMINAL: But they see every speck of dust CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: With these CRIMINAL: They are CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: Our eyes CRIMINAL: All eyes CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: Do you think that we are suprised? CRIMINAL: How could we know they'd watch the skies? CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: With this? CRIMINAL: Our shame CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: At this? CRIMINAL: The line CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: These crimes are desperate and unkind CRIMINAL: These crimes are desperate but divine CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: And when the tape plays back we'll ask you Don't you know your friends? CRIMINAL: Don't we know our friends? CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: You think you can do things that we can't see But we see the results immediately By watching it all, for preventative gain Seen enemies tracks, seen them on the train Dark faces are tracked and recorded and mapped Through a new way of living, we've never looking back Dark wires and hand claps, avoid a scare CCTV CAMERA SUPERVISOR: That group of people lying down? Zoom in there! CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: In time CRIMINAL: With time CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: We'll rust CRIMINAL: They'll rust CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: But we've seen every speck of dust CRIMINAL: But they see every speck of dust CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: With these CRIMINAL: They are CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: Our eyes CRIMINAL: All eyes CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: Do you think that we are suprised? CRIMINAL: How could we know they'd watch the skies? CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: With this? CRIMINAL: Our shame CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: At this? CRIMINAL: The line CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: These crimes are desperate and unkind CRIMINAL: These crimes are desperate but divine CCTV CAMERA OPERATOR: And when the tape plays back we'll ask you Don't you know your friends? CRIMINAL: Don't we know our friends?
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The Cobras 04:06
LEADER OF THE COBRAS: Don't think you can come down to our neighborhood Don't think you can come down to our neighborhood You think you own it all THE WHOLE GANG: Don't think you can come down to our neighborhood! LEADER OF THE COBRAS: Don't think you can come down to our neighborhood Don't think you can come down to our neighborhood You think you own it all We've got the will We've got the guns And we will do What must be done But you think you own it all
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The Race 03:05
STREET RACER: Listen here kid, I will never carry you Face it down now, fight what you are afraid to do Never fear kid, eyes up to the power lines Or you will blow out and then close a thousand eyes Listen when I'm speaking I'll teach you how to race That's when you burn it That how you fake it I know it seems cruel But they will never forget you Although your hands shake I've seen your heart, your heart is true Now exhaust fills the sky Fuck what you heard, I know this is do or die That's when you burn it That how you fake it The engine turns it The ground will scrape it Wind hits the car, flipped Blaze when the spark lit What the crowd will never see Rolled into the darkness
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BYSTANDER TO THE FALL OF THE GREEN LIGHT TOWER: The light covered everything The light powered itself It was perfect It was perfect They built other towers They built other towers To catch the glow They are killing it Now this tower dies It's coming down The light covered everything The light powered itself It was perfect It was perfect They built other towers They built other towers To catch the glow They are killing it As it comes down As it comes down Destroys everything Destroys everything As it comes down As it rains down Destroys everything What have we done If you see see the light and I still the light It's broken, it will never be as ever bright
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MEMBER OF THE EAGLES: This is a warning to the streets, we run this Call to all arms, take aim, don't miss Kiss every last lover because we take them away We grow in the night and we study the day Where can you hide and where will you run? How will you see when we destroy the sun? All bills move through us, all product Meet the new bosses, the balance is fucked LEADER OF THE EAGLES: If there's a new product, then we're the new source Drop a condo on your house like a motherfuckin' stork Take your girl, move her near the Royal Fork By the porno booths where we like to hold court Snakeskin boots, we roll in troops With a clubhouse like a chicken coop, here's the truth Anything you see belongs to we If it's under our wingspan it's in the plan The plan is to expand on any plot of land And demand our inheritance to community chest We are the coins you flip aside to get my divine right at an amenable price Hope you had a quite hospitable life It's about to get tougher, better stay undercover See us on the street and I suggest you burn rubber, bounce like flubber You should really listen because eagle power's enough to bring back prohibition, yeah we'll ruin your condition Handle liaisons, build the power plant with smokestacks like grey bongs You don't wanna mess with big bird, yeah I heard You're saying that we're preying on the neighbourhood you stay in But we're really just taking the apple from you cavemen Concerned with snake plan, get locked outta Eden Even if you pay it, it don't mean that we're even Stay in formation no matter the season Low to the ground for despicable reasons Slithering creatures should be held out for treason Jesus, I hope that they're leaving MEMBER OF THE EAGLES: So now we reach and wrap our hands around what you hold loosely And when we shake the towers down we map new borders clearly We are recruiting, are you with us or against us? So now take your gun and menace everyone LEADER OF THE EAGLES: Birds of a feather, yeah we do that thing We take wing and run from the weather We fly in rings as corporate kings We're a gang but we stick together Consider this a tete-a-tete My set is dead set on wrecking your credibility and promoting your flying ability Forced relocation is my actual passion I got snakes on a plane like Samuel Jackson Done with casual actions, you're in my sights Life's like hell when you see the wing swell And you realize your city isn't what it was once Too much venom, poison love buzz Wracked with pain, it's all from the way that you act Watch me turn this display into whacking day, back away You don't wanna see me and my crew in front of your watering hole, we'll bother your soul Check me out, don't test, this is my nest This is the official eagle anthem, flying on an airport you're scared report, see? You listen, we see you shedding in the distance What it do? What happened to that boy? MEMBER OF THE EAGLES: So now we reach and wrap our hands around what you hold loosely And when we shake the towers down we map new borders clearly We are recruiting, are you with us or against us? So now take your gun and menace everyone
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The Rave 03:23
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The Riots 03:45
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This is a concept album about a fictional city that could be anywhere in North America. It is meant to be a tour of the important communities and events in the city's history. It is very important to us.

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released August 6, 2016

The Voltage Heroes are:
Daniel Jonathan Poole - Lead Vocals, Keyboards
Zachary Michael Poole - Lead Keyboards, Vocals
Kevin Daniel Cherney - Rival Lead Keyboards, Vocals
Connor Joseph Mayer - Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Weird Screaming

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jesse Gander at The Hive, 2012.
Guest vocals on "The Eagles" written and performed by Roland Pemberton
Guest vocals on "The Mayor's Speech" by Jesse Gander and Tanis Gibbons
Guest guitar on "The Race" & "White Light Tower" written and performed by Michael Willock

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